Manny Farber Quotes

I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that we don't appreciate the craft as much as we used to in the bygone era.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I'm certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I'd love to see what they could do when they aren't leading us from reality.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

I think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can either be made good or great based on the execution. At the end of the day, it's always a crapshoot about the execution, the level of taste, in any department.

People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

I do films that I'd also like to watch as an audience member.

I've worked with Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Olive Stone and David Gordon Green, and Damien Chazelle on 'First Man.' When you have someone at the helm like that, they're gonna make something great.

I think one of the things that will really surprise people about 'See No Evil 2' is the fact that its so beautifully shot. It's really a pretty movie.

I will always endeavour to bring out the best films.